The one the animals noticed

A Modern Day Empath In a city stitched together by concrete veins and neon hearts, where horns shouted and screens blinked like restless eyes, there lived a woman named Elia. She didn’t stand out, not at first glance. She wore old canvas sneakers that seemed to know every sidewalk crack, jeans faded by time and… Continue reading The one the animals noticed

The Memory in the Fur

The lunchroom smelled faintly of chamomile tea and soft rolls warming in the kitchen oven. Light filtered through gauzy curtains, painting the scuffed linoleum floor in honey colored streaks. The old radiators ticked with heat, a rhythmic hush beneath the occasional squeak of a wheelchair or cough swallowed into a handkerchief. Betty sat alone by… Continue reading The Memory in the Fur